Translated Wheen (14 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. New Fawcett Crest Ed: July 1975/59th Pr. 256 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Light foxing on page edges. Slightly creased and slanted spine. Lower corner of front cover damaged.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Claudine Meissner (Design); Marsha Austin (Cover Design) (illustrator). 312 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased spine. Miniscule stains on fore and bottom edges.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. first ed. thus. Squarish octavo, (approx. 7 5/8" wide by 9 1/4"tall) black cloth covers, 206 [2] pages. Black and white photos drawn from the archives of the Liberty Memorial Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. World War I fiction. 092508F.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Avon Book # G1049. Clean text. Minor wear along the edges and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. Undated edition. Loosely bound, cream card boards, red cloth spine. Scuffing and dust spotting on cover and spine. Marks on some pages. No jacket, inner hinge split at the title page.

mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 295 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; crease front cover; few slight nicks to edges cover; tips bumped; spine starting to slant; some faint tanning; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Black Cloth. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No dj. Second Impression. No date, second impression stated on title page. No wrapper. Black cloth boards, spine titling faded, generally shelfworn with fraying at corners, not splitting along hinges yet. Text block quite decent, free of inscr, so could be considered re-binding copy. Adverts at rear dated Spring 1937. Size: 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. A vintage 1954 edition of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. The Sunday referee describes this novel as - universal in its appeal and pplication. It supersedes all previous histories superflous. The common soldier has found a supreme voice, which tells the tale of the trenches in accents of almost unbearable poignancy and beauty. - a glowing review of a book based in the first world war that deserves to be read. If you do not have a copy of this book in your home library already, now is the perfect time to purchase one. Title: All Quiet on the Western Front Author: Erich Maria Remarque, translated into English by A. W. Wheen Publisher: Putnam Publication Date: 1954 Format: Hardcover Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor board wear, age spots on page block, library stamps and stickers on pastedowns, endpapers and copy page.

Condition: Poor. Hardcover. No dustjacket. 1930 reprint. Worn cover with discolouration/staining/scuffs/tears. Front endpaper missing. Foxing throughout, heavy on several pages. Some creases/marks to pages. Text readable.

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Early Printing. This copy is of an early printing, "133,000". There is very little corner bumping or edge wear. Some light darkening of the board edges and spine covering. Light 'dirt' at tail of spine. Upper edge of textblock tinted very dark blue. Hinges and gutters are solid, some shadowing of endpapers. Owner's name neatly inked center of fep. Same page has small notation lower corner, "from Wiesbaden, Germany August 5th, 1930". These notations reappear in white on half-title page after, which is quite shadowed. Main body of text has slightly yellowed with age, but clean and tight in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Early Printing.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. First Edition, so stated. Description: Dust jacket art by Paul Wenck. From the jacket blurb: ''The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty and violence are everywhere. This is the scene as the curtain rises on 'Three Comrades.' Nothing of this political upheaval belonged to the three. It was the concern of the people whose way of life they had found it impossible again to accept since the time when war had exploded in their hearts and left them empty. To fill that void they had only their friendship, an islet in a sea of chaos.'' This was the basis for the 1938 film of the same name, starring Franchot Tone, Robert Taylor, Robert Young and Margaret Sullavan. A 1999 film called Flowers from the Victors, though set in Russia in the 1990s was based on this book. BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with darker blue text; the top edge of the text block shows some foxing; ; the cloth is badly faded along the top and spine; a Good book, with a Fair dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped. 8vo (8.5 inches tall). 479 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. "This translation first published 1930" stated. No additional date, edition or printing indicated. Near fine hardback. No dust jacket. Only minor, if not trivial general signs of age/wear/previous use to covers, fore-edge corners, and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition in English. This is an early printing, published in July 1929 - completing 133,000 copies. The first printing in England, and the first edition in English translation was published in March 1929. The book was originally published in Germany in January 1929 as "Im Westen Nichts Neues". ***Near fine in oatmeal textured cloth-covered boards with dark green titles to the spine and front board. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps to the boards. Corners sharp. Top edge stained green by the published to match the colour of the dustwrapper [the stain is still nice and dark]. No tears. Internally near fine, with no foxing to the pages. Pages clean. No inscriptions. Spine tight, with just a very slight forward lean from reading. ***In a near fine dark green printed dustwrapper, with white titles, which retains the publisher's printed price of 7s. 6d.net on the front flap. The dustwrapper is complete, with just some slight very slight loss at the top of the spine, and on the top edge of the front panel. Just very light edge-wear to the extremities. No tears. No chips. Spine completely clean and unfaded. Internal folds are uncreased. [Please see scans] ***195 mm x135 mm. 320 pages. ***'This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.' [Quote taken from the beginning of the book] ***'I stand up. I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they bring me nothing more, they can bring me nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.' ***'He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.' [Quotes taken from the last two pages of the novel] ***'"All Quiet on the Western Front" is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front. The novel was first published in Nov and Dec 1928 in the German newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" and in book form in late Jan 1929. The book and its sequel, "The Road Back" (1930), were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany. "All Quiet on the Western Front" sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first 18 months in print. Although publishers had worried that interest in World War I had waned more than 10 years after the armistice, Remarque's realistic depiction of trench warfare from the perspective of young soldiers struck a chord with the war's survivors - soldiers and civilians alike - and provoked strong reactions, both positive and negative, around the world. [Wiki] ***An early printing of the first edition in English of "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. Of interest to literary academics and collectors of First World War literature. Early editions from 1929 are now quite scarce, especially in such near fine condition. Copies from this period which retain a complete surviving dustwrapper are exceedingly scarce. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in Germany in 1929 as 'Im Westen Nichts Neues' and in the UK in March 1929, this is a first UK edition, fifteenth impression, completing 113,000 copies, of June 1929. A massive tribute to the book's popularity. Top of page block dyed green as issued. Some edge wear, chipping and loss to top of largely green jacket and spine, some slight edge wear and rubbing to bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, slight lean, some slight creasing and yellowing to back jacket and inside flaps, some slight yellowing and spotting to page block. Not price clipped (7s 6d), no inscriptions, contemporary advert advertising the work of translator A. W. Wheen tipped in, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 319pp. Possibly the most famous anti war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches. Erich Maria Remarque (b. Erich Paul Remark 1898-1970), was a German novelist. His landmark novel 'All Quiet on the Western Front' about the German military experience of World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre, and was subsequently adapted into a film of the same name in 1930 directed by Lewis Milestone. It was subsequently adapted for television in 1979, starring Ernest Borgnine. During WWI, Remarque was conscripted into the German Imperial Army at the age of 18. In 1917, he was transferred to the Western Front, 2nd Company, Reserves, Field Depot of the 2nd Guards Reserve Division at Hem-Lenglet. On 26th June 1917 he was posted to the 15th Reserve Infantry Regiment and fought in the trenches between Torhout and Houthulst. On 31st July 1917 he was wounded by shell shrapnel in the left leg, right arm and neck, and after being medically evacuated from the field was repatriated to an army hospital in Germany where he spent the rest of the war recovering from his wounds, before being demobilized from the army. On 10th May 1933, at the initiative of the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Remarque's writing was publicly declared as 'unpatriotic' and was banned in Germany. Copies were removed from all libraries and restricted from being sold or published anywhere in the country. Germany was rapidly descending into a totalitarian society, leading to mass arrests of elements of the population of which the new governing order disapproved and Remarque fled Germany to live at his villa in Switzerland. Remarque's French background as well as his Catholic faith were also publicly attacked by the Nazis. They continued to decry his writings in his absence, proclaiming that anyone who would change the spelling of his name from the German 'Remark' to the French 'Remarque' could not be a true German. The Nazis further made the false claim that Remarque had not seen active service during World War I. In 1938, Remarque's German citizenship was revoked. In 1939, he and his ex-wife were remarried to prevent her repatriation to Germany. Just before the outbreak of World War II in Europe, they left Porto Ronco, Switzerland for the United States. They became naturalised citizens of the United States in 1947. Arthur Wesley Wheen MM & Two Bars (1897-1971), was an Australian soldier, translator and museum librarian, best known for translating Remarque's work. An exceptionally scarce book in this early impression.